Howdy,
I’m building a small 35″ x 24″ x 3/4″ table out of utile. It will be part of a built-in unit in a corner with bench seats, cd storage, and an old payphone. I’d like to try to inlay a checker board into the table top. Is this asking for trouble? And if I do it in a solid wood top, do I need to inlay something on the bottom as well, the way you do when veneering?
Thanks,
Fuzzy
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From my experience, the most likely problem would be the expansion and contraction of the solid wood top "throwing" out the checkerboard from conflicting movement. If the table top is very stable (I'm not familiar with the wood you mentioned), and if the checkerboard grain runs in the same direction, it might not be a problem. You wouldn't have to laminate both sides, but you would have to finish both sides.
Thanks for the reply. This will be my first experience with utile. It is an African wood, supposedly similar to mahogany. Any others out there familiar with it care to way in? I'd love to have the checkerboard, but it would kind of ruin the piece if were "thrown."
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